Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-23

Garfield Thursday to work in the Ida mine
owned by Byron, Fish and Briggs.
Walter Harris, Frank Shirley, Artie Har.
ris, and couple Of boys from Reno left on
trip 10 Bonner Lake, Tahoe, Weber and
Independence Lakes last evening.
The Ophir mill will starr to clean up
about next Tuesday. The cleanup will be
a thorough one and the mill will then be
closed down through the dry season.
Jim Townsend says the cuts Of Robinson's
giraffes in some Of the newspapers in this
State look more like 10; OF tape worms
having dog fight than anything else he can
think of.
The game Of ball between the Carson nd
Virginia mines to morrow, will be very inter-
esting. 1t will be for $500 a side, and prob
ably four times that amount will change
hands on the outside.
The person who stole langshan rooster
from a certain yard in town few days ago
will please return the same. The thief is
known. and unless the bird is returnd imme-
diately there will be trouble.
Senator Stewart and wife passed through
Dayton on their way to Sutro last Sunday.
He came up from San Francisco Sunday
morning, drove to Sutro Immediately, and re-
turned to San Francisco Monday night.
Harry Castleton, a brother Of Kate, was a
passenger on last Thursdays train bound
for Virginia. He has been out to Pine
Grove and Rockland for the past few
months, and thinks there are great hopes for
that country.
A load Of hay belonging to Domingo
Cuneo was tipped over near the Douglass
scales last Thursday. The load was large
one, and in driving off the scales the hind
wheel of the wagon struck a rock, and a
gust of wind helped to upset the load.
Tin pigeon shooting is all the rage now
good shots in Dayton, too. Coffin, Beale
and Shirley are getting so they can open sew,
en- or eight birds In ten shots nearly every
time, and sometimes they get nine out Of ten.
Judge W. T. Bunney, formerly Of Mason
Valley, and later Of Reno is now residing
at Bishop Creek. Mrs. Bunney and family
were passengers on Thursdays train bound
for their new home. They intend to make
Bishop Creek their permanent place Of resi-
dence.
Some work Is being done on the North
Rapidan mine, at Como. MIR. Maxwell is
working right along digging into the rock,
and every few days has assistance to hois,
the ore to the surface. This rock that they
are now in will go about ST. per ton, which
they do not think is good enough to pay ex.
penses.
| Greedy French was down from Silver City
yesterday. He has his mill just below Sill.
yer now arranged so that it will work
gold or silver rock and tailings also. There
are four stamps in the mill and it is all com
pleted and ready to begin work. The mill
will be started up next week or the first Of
the month.
Mrs. Langtry bought some property in
Carson during her brief visit there. The
writer would like 10 sell her a couple OF de.
sirable building lots in Dayton if she is
thinking Of purchasing any more property
in Nevada. Town lots in Pizen Switch are
also selling at low figures, and that is jus,
the place to speculate in sinking artesian
wells.
They tell a story about one Of the camp.
ers who returned from the lake last week,
WEIGH sounds rather dear. One Of the boys
came rushing into amp late in the afternoon
one day and said he had killed deer, sure.
He at last made the other boys believe him
and 60 with him to pack the carcass to camp.
After travelling about two miles and a half
they came to the animal. One Of the party
picked up foot and found shoe on the an
imal and that settled it. They struck light
Immediately and found tina, the hunter had
killed one of Vansckle's jackasses. 1t
proved to be dear deer meat.